Microsoft Windows 10 Event: Live Updates With Our Partners at Yahoo Tech
Microsoft shows off its operating system makeover, along with a number of other surprises. Live updates from ABC News and our partners at Yahoo Tech
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We're 15 minutes away before the start of Microsoft's big event. We'll be live blogging the latest on Windows 10 and any other surprises Microsoft has in store, along with our partners at Yahoo , so stay with us.
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Quick update before this event officially gets going. I (Rafe) am at Microsoft at the event and will cover what I can see from here. Other team members will be providing additional analysis and commentary, and helping manage the community (that would be y'all) for questions and comments.
The keynote should kick off in 10 minutes, 9am PT.
Microsoft will be live-streaming a video of the keynote:Windows 10: The Next Chapter
Join us right here on January 21 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time to learn about the next chapter for #Windows10. -
Why Windows 10? Shouldn't there be a Windows 9?
Microsoft has a reason for skipping over No. 9. "Windows 10 carries Windows forward into a new way of doing things. It is not an incremental change, but a new Windows that will empower the next billion users," a company spokesperson told ABC News. -
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Myerson outlines three key points:
Mobility of experience. You should be able to use the technology on whatever device you want.
The second area Microsoft has worked on innovating is trust. "You are our customer, not our product."
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The Windows 10 event is supposed to last two hours. Here's to hoping that former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer stops by for a dance break. Check out his amazing moves here.
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That's hologram Terry Myerson, Microsoft's EVP of Operating Systems, captured in hologram form below. (Thanks to our partners at Yahoo Tech for the pics) "Whoa! I'm a freaking hologram!" Myserson said.
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